Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome. I'm Karen Hunter, and today I want to talk about owning your

ish. This isn't a conversation about owning up to your faults. This is literally a conversation about ownership.

I came across a clip in my scrolling on Instagram from, I think it was a podcast with Noriega.

He's talking to Alicia Keys. And Alicia Keys had a song that she wanted to use a sample of Prince.

And matter of fact, let me not describe it.

Let me just play it so that you can hear for yourself.

I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you.

We had Nas sitting the same table and the only person he said that did front on him was Prince.

And he said it wasn't because he

didn't want to do the record with him.

It was because Nas didn't own his masters and he just...

He was real like that.

No, he, I had the song that I had called Like You'll Never See Me Again, which is one of my favorite songs.

It does have a progression very close to Purple Rain. Right. And I had to go see him. I flew out to London. He was in like this hotel and had to find it like this. It's never an easy thing when you look at for friends. So I had to find him. I had to sit with him. And I said to him, like, I love this record. It's so powerful.

I wrote it from my grandmother.

It's about like taking, seizing the moment and not letting it go and loving the person like you might never see them again because you know how short life is.

And so he felt it.

He was good.

And he was like, Alicia, I'm not sending these people's children to college on my

shit this is deep oh and he said that to me i was like how could i argue you know what i mean

like how could you i was like and so he was like I don't know what you need to do

flip the cords up change them around

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